National Politics

By Devan Cole, CNN Missouri cannot enforce a controversial state law it says looks to protect gun rights, a federal judge in the state ruled Tuesday, saying the measure ran afoul of the US Constitution. The US Justice Department argued in a lawsuit it brought against Missouri last year that the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,”

By Donald Judd and Brian Fung, CNN President Joe Biden’s candidate for the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, has withdrawn her nomination after West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced he’d vote against her confirmation. In a statement, Sohn says she’d asked Biden to withdraw her nomination Monday evening, blasting what she detailed as “unrelenting,

By Steve Contorno, CNN Laying out his top priorities for a second term and a potential platform for a presidential run, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a State of the State speech Tuesday that conspicuously avoided much of the divisive rhetoric that has fueled his political ascent but nevertheless signaled another round of cultural wars

By Katie Lobosco, CNN SoFi, a private lender, sued the Biden administration last week in an effort to end the pause on federal student loan payments that has been in place since March 2020. The pause on payments was originally put in place during the Trump administration to help people struggling due to the Covid-19

By Whitney Wild and Devan Cole, CNN US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection that he aired Monday night, saying the host “cherry-picked” from the footage to present “offensive” and “misleading” conclusions about the attack. “Last

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will welcome South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee to the White House in late April for an official state visit, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. The state visit will be the second of

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Michelle Obama broke down shortly after leaving then-President Donald Trump‘s inauguration, the former first lady candidly shared in a new podcast, as the emotions of leaving their family’s home after eight years and resentment over Trump taking office overwhelmed her. “When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable

By Tami Luhby, CNN The White House unveiled Tuesday a plan to shore up a key Medicare trust fund by raising taxes on those earning more than $400,000 a year and by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for even more drugs. Medicare, which covers more than 65 million senior citizens and people with disabilities, is

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN More than two years after an alleged Russian hacking campaign exposed glaring weakness in US federal defenses, the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency has not updated a key agency blueprint for maintaining communications in the event of a major hack, the department’s inspector general said Monday. The watchdog’s finding highlights

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration is expected to make a decision soon on whether to approve the controversial Willow Project in Alaska. ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope has been moving through the administration’s approval process for months, galvanizing a sudden uprising of online activism against it, including more

By Shania Shelton, CNN Voters in Oklahoma will reject a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state for adults ages 21 and older, CNN projects. The ballot measure at stake in Tuesday’s special election was one of several such measures on cannabis use that has been considered by voters in recent

By Colin McCullough and Oren Liebermann, CNN US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said US troops are “ready to remain in Iraq” in his remarks during an unannounced trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, according to the US press pool traveling with him. Austin, the highest-ranking Cabinet official to visit the country since the start of

By Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent A top adviser to the core group of senior officials at the center of President Joe Biden’s White House is set to depart the West Wing in the coming days. Remi Yamamoto, senior adviser for the office of the chief of staff, will become the latest senior official

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired newly released footage on his show Monday from the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, that included images of the rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman,” as well as of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died following the attack.

By Arlette Saenz and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden warned parts of East Africa are “on the precipice” of famine as the region is dealing with a severe drought, threatening livelihoods and the ability of families to feed their children. Her comments came in a series of wide-ranging interviews during a recent

By Jeremy Diamond and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is considering reinstating the policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally, a practice President Joe Biden had ended when he came into office, two administration officials said. It is one of several options administration officials are mulling as they prepare for the

By Shania Shelton, CNN Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdrew on Monday from the Electronic Registration Information Center, the bipartisan multi-state partnership aimed at helping states maintain accurate voter rolls. ERIC is a nonprofit system that helps participating states keep their registration rolls accurate and up to date by analyzing voter data and sharing reports